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Down These Mean Streets: Textuality & the Search for Meaning in Crime Fiction
At the basis of all crime fiction seems to be a fundamental preoccupation with the pursuit of knowledge and truth, and consequently, a premise that these may be acquired through a process of systematic analysis. Closely tied in to this search for meaning is the genre's interest in textuality, …
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Summary proceedings and social relations in the city of London, c.1750-1800
Historians of crime and the criminal justice system have largely neglected the summary process. While an important theme of previous work on the history of crime has been concerned with the use of law, most research has focused on the jury courts of assize and quarter sessions and has used records …
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Identity and the Prosecution of Interpersonal Violence in Late Medieval Yorkshire, 1340-85
… historiographical focus on quantifying medieval crime and profiling criminals. This methodology has often resulted in a failure to consider the intersection between the law and social attitudes. This current investigation is interested in the extent to which legal privileges or social norms …